Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet—moon rocks—from an "impregnable" high-tech vault. But breaking into a highly...
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From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet—moon rocks—from an "impregnable" high-tech vault. But breaking into a highly secure laboratory wasn't easy. Thad Roberts, an intern in a prestigious NASA training program, would have to concoct a meticulous plan to get past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined hallways even before he could get his hands on the 600-pound safe. And then how was he supposed to get it out? And what does one do with an item so valuable that it's illegal even to own? With his signature high-velocity style, Mezrich reconstructs the outlandish heist and tells a story of genius, love, and duplicity that reads like a Hollywood thrill ride.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307741349 (0307741346)
Publish date: July 10th 2012
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
Science,
Space,
Mystery,
Crime,
True Crime
Allow me to begin by firmly stating that in my oh so humble opinion having sex in a bed with a stolen moon rock in it is: 1. weird and creepy (not to mention potentially dangerous- are moon rocks scratchy?), and 2. NOT the same thing as having sex on the actual moon. If you had sex on a down comfort...
Starting with the larger than life title, Sex on the Moon proceeds at a very brisk pace as it unfolds with the story of a bright young man named Thad Roberts. As with all of Mezrich’s books this moves at a fast pace and has a fiction-type dialogue. Mezrich does jump around at times which can be c...
Kind of unreadable. All the dialogue sounds the same, and it all sounds like the author, rather than the people described. Library copy
Unbelievable story shot the theft of moon rocks from NASA
http://www.yourentertainmentcorner.com/2011/11/book-review-sex-on-the-moon-by-ben-mezrich/